12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
11:45 a.m.
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, William Donzelli wrote:
Ironically, one of the *very* recent last uses of
punch cards was for
the USDA, for cotton bales.
Our college system used them for years as blank stock for printing small
forms, such as "ADD Cards", etc. Then they switched over to three part
forms. When they did, they dumpstered ALL of the blank cards, AND came
around to the CIS department and hauled away our cabinets of punched cards
(mostly 1620 and 1401 software) over our objections. They were
conscientious. One instructor was using some card file cabinets for
storing ISA 5150 cards. They hauled away one of his cabinets full, but
dumped the contents of the other one onto the floor when they took it
away. They later tried to fire him for retrieving things from dumpsters.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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